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Hôtel Saint-Louis en l'Isle

Does anyone have any feedback on Hotel Saint-Louis en I'Islel? Looks like the other hotels on Isle Saint Louis are already booked for July of next year. Wow. I thought I was booking in plenty of time. I'm also waiting to hear if there's any availability for the hotel in the hospital......kind of creepy, but got good reviews.
Thanks,
Laurie

I wouldn't think that all hotels in any Parisian location would already be booked for July of 2013, including the island. July isn't even a busy hotel period for Paris, anyway, but even for busy periods, they wouldn't be normal. If you tried online, it's possible their booking software just doesn't work that far ahead and that several of them are using the same software. There is one company I see repeatedly on many Parisian hotel websites (their booking software). I wouldn't even try to book a hotel almost a year ahead of time in Paris, too much can change and there isn't any need to, there are plenty of hotel rooms available in Paris in July.

However, if you really want to and have one you'd like, I'd somehow contact them directly to find out if it is really true they are booked up already for next July (the ones on the island--Hotel Jeu de Paume, Les Deux Iles or Lutece, I think those are the others). If you've already done that, then I also am shocked that 3 hotels are completely booked up already for almost a year away (maybe I could see that during some special trade show period).

I wouldn't want to stay in those rooms in that hospital, and they aren't cheap for what you get, although I guess that would be about the level of a 2* hotel. That isn't a great location, anyway, in my opinion, almost right in front of Notre Dame and on a top floor of a hospital. There is no charm, either, of course. Ile de la Cite isn't the same as Ile St Louis in terms of ambience, either, as it isn't residential (I suppose someone must live on it a bit, of course). I could see why you might want to stay on Ile St Louis, but not the other location. I'd just look for a hotel close by if that's just the general area you want to be (the center of Paris).

Hotel Jeu de Paume's website will only allow you to book until the end of 2012, for example, a lot of hotels do that in Paris. I think it has something to do with them not setting their 2013 rates yet. The Hotel de Lutece website seems to only allow you to book through the end of Feb 2013. At least that's what it appears to me.

Whoops -- my apologies for entering this twice. I didn't think it went through the first time.
Thanks for your replies. I thought the same thing about the two lle St Louis hotels so I typed in some random dates for November 2013 -- and those showed availability. But I will take your advice and e-mail the hotels directly.
Laurie